I don’t understand
When you look at a kangaroo you can’t help but be puzzled as to why it was designed that way. Here is how writer Terry Domico describes the animal: “a human-size mammal with a deerlike head, rabbitlike ears, grasshopperlike hind legs and tiny squirrel-like forelegs, an animal that can jump 35 feet in a single bound, that licks its forearms to keep cool and that delivers karate chops to its rivals.”
A kangaroo reminds one of a farm sign I once saw. It was a bunch of miscellaneous chunks of metal that had been welded together to make a work of art.
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There is a legend about how the kangaroo got its name. It is said when explorer Captain Cook was in Australia around 1770 he asked an aboriginal person what the odd-looking animal was called and was told “kangaroo.” However, anthropologists who later studied the native language, say what the aboriginal told Cook was: “I don’t understand.”
And since Cook didn’t understand that his informant didn’t understand what he was asking these huge hoppers have been called kangaroos ever since.
That’s really not a bad name for an animal that gets about by hopping and, if pushed, can speed up to 40 miles per hour. This speed has been clocked by many Australians who try to keep kangaroos out of their crops and grazing land.
I once observed a kangaroo in the San Diego Zoo and thought at the time it was too bad it was not blue or covered with goo so I could write a dandy poem.
However, you unpaid literary advisers out there probably would just as soon have me leave that sort of versifying to Dr. Seuss.
